CaseSphere1980
Ridgefield, WA, USA
A bright light orb, flies in a Z pattern.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-07-10
- Where
- Ridgefield, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 45.815, -122.743 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-ridgefield-wa-1980-bf0b82
In context
- This is one of 17 reports logged in Ridgefield, WA.
- This case is one of 16 Washington reports filed in 1980.
- Sphere craft made up 8.1% of 1980s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.